Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Read full biography of Martin Lewis Perl →
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and... →
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my... →
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their... →
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.